Tectonic forces controlling the regional intraplate stress field in continental Australia: Results from new finite element modeling

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 2002, Pages

  Reynolds, Scott D ^a   Coblentz, David D ^a   Hillis, Richard R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Australia; Modeling; Plate dynamics; Stress

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC SETTING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0037055355     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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